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languages. Another periodical, Sovetken Chukotka, then came to the scene,
followed by Murgin Nutenut. With the advancement of radio and television,
shows in community languages began to be broadcast all over the Chukchi
Peninsula, even to reindeer breeders’ camps.
The local Krainiy Sever newspaper these days carries only Chukchi-language
translations of Russian news stories, unfortunately. The paper’s Website,
ks87.ru, runs a special Chukchi-language column, called Vettav.
Local radio stations continue broadcasting programmes in the Chukchi, the
Eskimo, and the Evenki languages, but the duration of broadcasts has decreased
dramatically since the mid-20 th century.
The shrinking community-language scope and the decreasing number
of indigenous inhabitants speaking their native languages have
promptednorthern communities to create several public organizations that
would work toward preserving their native languages and traditional cultures.
The most efficient of these is arguably the Chychetkin Vettav (Native Word).
Members of this association hold regular meetings, where only the Chukchi
language is spoken, and invite over some of the prominent indigenous narrators
and dancers, photographing and filming their performances.
Section 4. Photographying and videotaping the physical appearance and
traditional activities of indigenous community members. Identification,
restoration and digitized conservation of the family photo archives of sea
hunters and reindeer breeder dynasties.
This section started off with efforts to study the photographic archives
collected by V. Bogoraz and A. Forshtein, with the originals held at the
American Museum of Natural History (New York City, U.S.) and the Peter
the Great Anthropology and Ethnography Museum, of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, St. Petersburg. These are rich collections of photographic images,
giving a good idea of previous generations’ looks and lifestyles.
Some of the images have been attributed and, with the museums’ consent, they
were printed in the 2007 manual “Introduction to Sealife Hunting,” in the
“Tropoyu Bogoraza” collection (2008), and in a book on sled dog breeding,
“Nadezhda – a Race Along the Earth’s Edge” (2011).
V. Nuvano’s family archives have been digitized and retouched. They contain
one-off images of the Chukchi jailed after the 1940 uprising and sent to
gulags, as well as pictures of the widows and orphaned children of the reindeer
breeders persecuted then.
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